I disagree with Alex. It is possible to re-order columns, but only to a limit, which is defined by your HTML containers. And this makes it almost impossible to add new columns. Unless you use absolute-positioning that is..

I only want to say comments as “trippy” or “good” are very annoying. Who come to this site to read articles and find interesting comments – and iF that comments are found then the work and brain of the smart people is forgotten… this sites don’t deserve this.

I would be interested to find out if this site was designed before or after the One True Layout article series was published. The site seems to be a poster child for the programing discussed in the articles.

Overall, a very good read. Let’s all go to our local printshop and print it out for easy reference!

The core of the problem to me is that the fathers of css were nerds, not designers and they didn’t understand basic designer needs. Vertical centering in a box element? Equal height columns? What’s that for (from a nerd’s point of view)?
I’m all for standards and I’m using xhtml/css on a daily basis, but it never stopped to amuse me how backwards tableless layouts can be sometimes, compared to what was easily achieved with tables.

Rafalski: I don’t understand the english so good – but I imagine you work with CSS but not as the absolut true or the hard-line to follow. iF it’s so, I agree with you. Sincerly to me the CSS makes you have a grat standard, high quality and excellent browser support but with too limitations. Maybe I’m wrong, ‘cause I’m not CSS guru. As Designer I can tell you (iF you agree) the Graphic Design today demands more posibilities, more layouts, agressive or adventured designs, the CSS coding put margins for that. Today in this new Era of Internet, there are more sites looking as a blog or a newspaper… and other sites really amazing and moderns using .js and .css | About CSS: the and css is my headche.